Create your own at Storyboard ThatWilliam James' Four Features of Religious Experience Swinburne Swinburne Ineffability: Those who have mystical experiences cannot explain or adequately describe what it is they experience in this way. James likened it to being in love. He said that it is impossible to understand being in love if you've never been in love. Noetic Quality: Mystical states seem to give those privy to them an insight into the true nature of reality. Inductive: if the premises are true the conclusion is likely. Things such as religious experiences show that god is likely. Cumulative argument